The Happy Return

Name: The Happy Return
Author: C. S. Forester

by C. S. Forester

Naval novel about Captain Hornblower's return from the sea during peacetime crisis

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C. S. Forester

Forester created Captain Hornblower, the finest fictional naval officer since Marryat, in a series of Napoleonic sea novels of extraordinary narrative drive. His Brown on Resolution and The African Queen show his non-Hornblower range.

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